Obverse. Photo © MDM
  • 1500 Guaraníes 2017, Paraguay, 2018 Football (Soccer) World Cup in Russia
  • 1500 Guaraníes 2017, Paraguay, 2018 Football (Soccer) World Cup in Russia
Description

The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018. This will be the first World Cup ever held in Eastern Europe, and the first held in Europe since 2006.

The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil.

The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.

Obverse

Depicts two football players (with numbers 10 and 3) on the backgroung of a star and a football pitch, surrounded by the inscription "FIFA World Cup in Russia 2018".

COPA MUNDIAL DE LA FIFA RUSIA 2018 TM
10 3

Reverse

Depicts the national coat of arms or national seal of Paraguay ("Escudo de Armas") or ("Sello Nacional"). Value and date below.

The obverse of the arms features a round white background with the yellow five-pointed star surrounded by a palm branch to the left and an olive branch to the right both tied together surrounded by the Name of the State: "REPÚBLICA DEL PARAGUAY" (In Spanish for, "REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY").

The reverse of the arms features a golden lion in front of the staff and the Phrygian cap.

The first design of the coat of arms dates to the year 1820, from the time of the dictatorship of Francia.

REPUBLICA DE PARAGUAY
1500 GUARANIES-2017

Edge
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Gold
Fineness 0.999
Weight 6.75 g
Diameter 23 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Coin

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